Mobile Engineer

Florence ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

At Florence, we all have a definitive mission - to empower the care sector to work more efficiently in order to provide better quality care. Our online marketplace helps care homes fill rota gaps without the need for expensive recruitment agencies. Launched in 2017, we now work with over 50,000 nurses and carers and over 600 care home locations across England, Scotland and Wales. Nurses and carers have worked almost 1 million hours and earned more than 20million by booking shifts through Florence. We are a growing team of 60+, founded and led by a former doctor-turned-entrepreneur. This is a really exciting time to join Florence and be part of a tech startup that is filled with collaborative, passionate and driven people. Florence is looking for a talented Mobile Engineer to join the team and work on a brand new app that well be putting together using Flutter. We already have a couple of native apps so were really keen to speak with anyone who has experience building apps for iOS or Android as well as having a strong interest in and experience with Flutter. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES * Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders to fully understand the needs of our users. * Creating a scalable, well-tested product that lots of people rely on for their work. * Shaping the actual direction of the product. Being vocal and communicative to ensure we give our best to those using our products. * Having a strong focus on the product and what's important for the user. * Work closely with Product Managers and UI/ UX to develop new user-facing features. * Establishing good patterns and practices in a brand new product to enable easy future iterations. * Providing knowledge about the apps and their usage to the wider team * Owning a part of the mobile experience our workers experience * Point of call for bugs, feature ideas and questions about what's possible on mobile Requirements * Proficiency in one of Kotlin/ Java or Objective C/ Swift * Experience building apps for Android or iOS * Experience with and general enthusiasm for Flutter and Dart * Experience building apps in a commercial environment * Good understanding of concepts like encapsulation and creating maintainable code that's easy to test. * Good attention to detail. Able to translate mockups from UI Handoff tools into fully functional components and experiences for our users * Understanding of and experience writing UI, Integration and Acceptance tests for mobile * Strong understanding of Mobile. Constraints, best-practices and commonly adopted UX patterns for providing an optimal experience. Benefits * 25 days holiday * Company contributory pension scheme * Regular company and social outings (after the COVID lockdown) * MacBook supplied when joining When we are back in the office: * Access to kitchen area supplied with free teas, coffees, biscuits etc * Opportunity to contribute to growth in an early stage startup * Fun, friendly and collaborative startup office environment * Friendly office dogs